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The author reviews the opinion of a committee of the Azhar to ban the publicizing of adultery-related cases amidst outcry from media professors who assert that such a ban has not prevented adultery in other countries.
A Coptic citizen demands the invalidity of his under-aged daughter’s conversion to Islam.
Shaykh Tantāwī of the Azhar denied in an interview that the top Sunni Muslim institution is incapable of fulfilling its role, indicating that the Azhar is no longer sending a good number of teachers to Arab and Islamic countries purely for economic reasons.
The controversial document of religious rights has disappeared from the Azhar sheikhdom, raising many questions over the grand imām’s relations to it. Al-Maydān publishes a picture of Dr. Tantāwī and Shaykh cAmr al-Bastawīsī, the former head of the office of the grand imām, shaking hands...
Sāmih Fawzī says that Islamic thinker Dr. Muhammad ‘Umāra is used to attacking Christianity and the Holy Bible. Dr. ‘Umāra’s recent anti-Christian book Mulāhazāt ‘Ilmīya ‘Ala Kitāb al-Masīh fī al-Islām lil Duktour Michel Hāyik [Scientific notes on the book of Christ in Islam by...
The weekly sermon by the grand imām of the Azhar, which focused on the interpretation of Chapter 18, al-Kahf [The Cave] of the Holy Qur’ān, dealt with the need for dā‘iyas [Islamic preachers] to be equipped with knowledge and evidence about Islam and its morals.
The front-page item deals with a meeting between Grand Imām of the Azhar Shaykh Muhammad Sayyīd Tantāwī and former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord George Carey as part of the Azhar’s efforts to enhance the interfaith dialogue.
Some Egyptians have filed lawsuits against the grand imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyīd Tantāwī calling for his dismissal for his "unacceptable" opinions about the hijāb in France and his position regarding the Danish cartoons against the Prophet Muhammad.
To revive the Azhar, many professors and scholars advocate choosing the shaykh of the Azhar by election instead of appointment.

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